The Cowboy Way and The Color Line

Surviving as a rancher is hard for lots of reasons: land has gotten more expensive, corporate farms have gotten more powerful and put pressure on small ranches to expand their operations to stay in business, inflation has driven up the prices of feed and supplies… But for Nate, and for Black ranchers and farmers across the country, ranching is also hard because the USDA, the government agency that they’re supposed to be able to turn to for support, instead makes it hard for them to get that support. 

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Nate Bradford, Jr. and other Black farmers and ranchers are fighting to preserve a type of rural, Black agricultural life. But the past keeps blocking their future. In the third season of The Heist we follow Bradford’s fight to survive against the long, documented history of government discrimination against Black farmers. From The Center for Public Integrity and Pushkin Industries, New episodes drop every Tuesday in October 2023.